Özlem Türeci, M.D., Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of BioNTech, is a physician, immunologist, and cancer researcher with translational and clinical experience. Türeci has helped lead the discovery of cancer antigens, the development of mRNA-based individualized and off-the-shelf vaccine candidates and other types of immunotherapies which are currently in clinical development. Along with her team at BioNTech, Özlem Türeci developed one of the first mRNA-vaccines for effectively preventing COVID-19 infections. At the Falling Walls Science Summit 2021, Özlem Türeci talked about what the “mRNA Toolbox” has in store for the future, and how to translate science into medication.